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Diana Gabaldon
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„When I decided to write a novel, I had two full time jobs and three children under the age of six, so I don’t want anyone telling me they don’t have time to write a book, but I learned to work in the middle of the night, and I still do that…“
„First, a good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not body fluids. In other words, what’s going on physically is not really important. It’s what’s going on emotionally that’s important. You use the physical attributes or setting, only as a means of anchoring the reader in the moment, but it’s about what’s going on between these two people. And that leads to the second principle, which is that a good sex scene can only happen between two unique and specific people…“
„I was just looking for a time and place in which to set a historical novel because I wanted to practise writing one. I wasn’t going to show it to anyone, let alone get it published, so it didn’t really matter where I set it. I saw this young man in a kilt and thought that was quite fetching, so why not Scotland in the 18th century?“
„You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.“
„Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…“
„If one day, a bhailach… ye should meet a verra large mouse named Michael-ye’ll tell him your grandsire sends his regards.“
„Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?” I said, laughing. “Don’t want a lot, do you?“
„I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. “Aye, mo duinne. But you’re my sassenach.“
„You are beautiful,” he whispered to me. “If you say so.” “Do ye not believe me? Have I ever lied to you?” “That’s not what I mean. I mean—if you say it, then it’s true. You make it true.“
„The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.“
„Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.“
„I can stand a lot! But just because I can, does that mean I must? Do I have to bear everyone’s weakness? Can I not have my own?“
„If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.“
„He shook his head and squeezed my hand tight. “You are my courage, as I am your conscience,” he whispered, “You are my heart– I am your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?” –Jamie“
„I heard you went to Ireland… I haven’t seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough.“
„I have loved others, and I do love many, Sassenach—but you alone hold all my heart, whole in your hands,” he said softly. “And you know that.“
„I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser“
„It would ha’ been a good deal easier, if ye’d only been a witch.“
„Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations.“
„Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way… but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.“
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